From Tim Jackson: The artist Clet Abraham has a innovative approach to graffiti – apparently not legal.
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Fast Food Activist
An unknown artist paints recipes for healthier meals over fast food ads in Cologne, Germany:
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The Heidelberg Urban Revival Project
From Atlas Obscura, Your Guide to the World’s Hidden Treasures:
The Heidelberg Project: Bringing Color, Art, and Controversy to a Decaying Part of Detroit
by Ella Morton
Slate
November 19, 2013
Watching the deterioration of his impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood of McDougall-Hall two decades after Detroit’s 1967 race riots, artist Tyree Guyton felt the need to do something. So he picked up a paintbrush and painted pastel polka dots all over his grandfather’s Heidelberg Street house.
Guyton’s paint job was the first act toward what became the Heidelberg Project, an outdoor community art project aimed at breathing life back into his decaying district. Encouraged by his grandfather, and with the help of local kids, Guyton began decorating the abandoned homes beside the polka-dot house and installing art made from salvaged materials.
The project now spans two blocks and is constantly evolving, anchored by the altered houses. One ramshackle two-story home is covered in stuffed animals. Another is painted with numbers of wildly varying sizes and colors. Strewn across the yards are sculptures incorporating decorated cars, shopping carts, doors, shoes, and household appliances.
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Banksy’s Parting Gift
Banksy”s Nazi-Doctored Painting Raises $615,000 Online
by Katya Kazakina
Bloomberg
November 1, 2013
A whimsical painting by elusive British artist Banksy sold for $615,000 at on online auction yesterday.
Housing Works, which provides support for homeless patients living with HIV/AIDS, said it received the painting around 11 a.m. Tuesday, when a woman walked into its thrift shop near Gramercy Park to drop off what was then an anonymous donation.
“She said the painting is worth a lot of money and that someone will contact us about it,” said Rebecca Edmondson, director of public relations at Housing Works. Continue reading “Banksy’s Parting Gift”
Banksy Keeps on Trucking
Some recent highlights from Banksyny.com
October 22, Queens:
No turn unstoned. A 1/36 scale replica of the great Sphinx of Giza made from smashed cinderblocks. You’re advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.
October 20, Upper West Side:
